Saturday Night Cinema: Conquest

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It's Saturday Night at Atlas, and you know what that means. Garbo! Boyer! Conquest! Greta Garbo is hypnotic as always, and Boyer as Napolean received his first Best Actor Oscar nomination for his peformance. Delicious.

Conquest aka Marie Walewska was at the time the more expensive sound movie. The producer Bernard H. Hyman wanted it to be "the best Garbo ever made". There were a total 17 writers for the script and the film ended to be "merely a surface show. It goes no deeper than the images its screen reflects. One can watch it and study it as academically as we would watch a procession of ants underneath a magnifying glass…We view the destiny of both (Napoleon & Marie Walewska) with interest but not with compassion". Frank S.Nugent — The New York Times.

Conquest was released in England as Marie Waleska, the name of the real-life historical personage portrayed by Greta Garbo. The film begins in 1807, when Marie, a Polish countess, is dispatched by her country to meet with Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer). Marie has been encouraged to press for Polish independence by whatever means possible–and though no one comes out and says as much, it is understood that she will offer herself sexually to the promiscuous Napoleon. She dutifully becomes Bonaparte's mistress, bears his child, and–almost as an afterthought–falls in love with him. Thanks to the political chicanery of Talleyrand (Reginald Owen), Napoleon is obliged to marry Hapsburg princess Marie Louise, and Marie is cast aside, her usefulness at an end. Only after Napoleon has been exiled to Elba in 1815 is he reunited with Marie and their son (Scotty Beckett). Though it stands up pretty well today, Conquest was a flop in 1937, and the beginning of the end of Garbo's screen career. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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meira750
meira750
10 years ago

It’s a bit past noon on Sunday here in Israel so I am going to take a little after lunch nap and then watch. I really love Napoleon since I read about his Bible based” conviction that Israel belongs to the Jews and his plan to return it to us had his campaign to defeat the Turks here been successful. He also emancipated the Jews of France.
http://jbuff.com/c070104.htm, http://www.aish.com/jl/h/h/48945221.html, http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120503051726AAnFBBw
I also read a biography of Bonaparte but the author escapes me now. It was quite a different view of him than that of madman.

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Thanks for sharing!